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RM-6265/3-PR

JUNE

1970

•0

THE

MIND

SYSTEM:THE

STRUCTURE

OF

THE

SEMANTIC

FILE

Martin

Kay

and

Stanley

Y.

W.

Su

prepared

for

UNITED

STATES

AIR

FORCEPROJECT

RAND

SANTA

MONICA,

CA.

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RM-6265/3-PR

JUNE

1970

THE

MIND

SYSTEM:

THE

STRUCTURE

OF

THE

SEMANTIC

FILE

Martin

Kay

and

Stanley

Y.

W.

Su

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TITLE

TIHE

MINI)

SYSTEM:

THE

STRUCTURE OF

TIHE

SEMANTIC

FILE

4.

AUTHOR(S)

(Lost

name,

first

name,initial)

Kay,

Martin,

Stanley

Y. W. Su

5.

REPORT

DATE

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REFS.

June

1970

71

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OR GRANT

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SPONSORING

AGENCY

United

States

Air

Force

DDC-1

Project

RAND

10.

ABSTRACT

1.

I,

KEY

WORDS

One

of

a

sees

of

memranda

de.'cribing

Linguistics

the design,

inplementD6tion,

and

use

of

MIND

(Question-Answering

System)

the

MIND

syste\h+r-ks

study

,rovides

a

Information

Systems

detaileddescription

of

the'

way

in

which

Semantics

the

main

fact

file

of

the

I.MIND

information-

management

system

is

organized.

The

for-

mat

of

each

type

ofrecord

is

given

in

the

form

of

a

declaration

in

the

PL/l

program-

ming

languaf'e.

A

method

is

described

for

organizing

long

lists

of

items

so

that

any

desired entry

on

the

list

can be

retrieved

with

a

minimum

of

accesses

(usually

one)

to

the

disk.

Also

included

is

a

set

of

com-

puter

procedures

which

can be

incorporated

into

any

program

that

has

causeto

refer

to

the

file.

These

make

it

easy

to

store

and

retrieve

information

and

to

relieve

the

programmer

ofthe

necessity

of

bearing

all

the

details

of

the

file

representation

con-

stantly

in

mind.

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